Little Boygium: The story of an African immigrant in Belgium

 

In a country like Belgium, an African needs to be conscious, intelligent, and smart, because Belgium committed the most heinous crime against Africans during the colonial era in the Belgian Congo. Under the administration of King Leopold II, over ten million Africans were maimed, disfigured, and killed.

 

When Polish-American Hilary Koprowski claimed to have discovered vaccines against smallpox in the 1950s, he quickly went to Congo. He injected thousands of children with the contaminated vaccine of AIDS and Ebola viruses. Also, a contaminated vaccine against leukemia was used on Congolese children.

 

The Germans used Blacks for the most sinister experiments during their occupation in Togo, a small country in West Africa, while South Africans suffered a similar fate at the hands of the Netherlands and Britain. The reason AIDS has killed thousands of South Africans without ceasing.

 

Due to the criminal past of colonial leaders, including Belgium, when the African community came to me to investigate a notorious hospital in Antwerp called ‘Stuivenberg’ and the reason why any African who goes there doesn’t come out alive, I considered it a serious case to follow.

 

The fear of Africans in Europe to confront authorities whenever something wrong happens to an African has given automatic license to governments and nationals to treat Africans the way they like with impunity.

 

As a matter of fact, since many Africans in Europe don’t have a common platform to express their grievances and crimes against them, their situation has never improved.

 

When I entered the hospital, what I experienced made me believe what the African community was saying.

 

“The doctors at the hospital deliberately kill the African patients to remove their organs for the desperate Belgians on the waiting list for an organ transplant.” I wasn’t welcomed. It was one of the toughest moments of my life.

 

I revealed this investigation in a small book called ‘An African in Antwerp’ and then later updated it to ‘Little Boygium—Wonderful Experience.’

 

When the publication reached the office of ‘Stad Antwerpen’ (Antwerp City), one of the officials, Els Bruyndonckx, confronted me over the article and called it a ‘stupid article.’ Why? According to her, the husband is a journalist who wouldn’t publish such a stupid article.

 

“Well, your husband is a journalist, but he is not an African; moreover, the crime committed against Africans is nowhere to be seen in any Belgian newspapers, but one often reads, ‘An African has stolen bread from the supermarket.’ I answered.

 

I have found five mobile phones and three wallets containing money and credit cards. One of the wallets has the 4-digit number required to withdraw an amount exceeding six thousand euros from the account of one of the owners, yet I didn’t use it.

 

I handed that particular wallet to the police. The news about this kindness didn’t appear anywhere in the Belgian newspaper. Thank God the woman looked for me to reward me.

 

According to Els, due to the publication, people fear visiting Stuivenberg Hospital. The fact is that fear already exists, which is the reason I went to do the investigation.

 

Thereafter, I became the number one enemy in Belgium. However, I was very happy because the results of the investigation and the publication were good. The City of Antwerp sent a delegation to the hospital to investigate.

 

I disguised myself many times and went there during the heat-up and saw policemen guarding the hospital. Above all, Stuivenberg Hospital now remains one of the safest hospitals in Antwerp, hardly hearing the death of any African after my publication.

 

If I should ask, sometimes is it worth fighting on behalf of Africans?”

 

About seventy-five percent of Africans in Antwerp aren’t aware that I even went to the hospital at all to investigate, because of a lack of reading. I have lived a life of pain and struggle, putting the lives of my family in danger and unhappiness, all because of the search for the truth.

 

Concerning the ‘truth,’ it is always hard to get someone to support you. The reason is that I have faced and fought this battle alone, but when it comes to crime, it is always easy to get an accomplice, because crime is a business.

 

Belgium can pretend they don’t know me; I will also pretend I don’t know them.

 

Even though since I wrote the book ‘Little Boygium—Wonderful Experience,’ no one has given a comment, but taking into consideration what happened in Antwerp when the book came out, I’ve personally given my book five stars.

 

https://www.amazon.com/Little-Boygium-Experience-Joel-Savage-ebook/dp/B013SJ7DCW?

 

The Stuivenberg Hospital finally closed down.

 

On September 18, 2023, one of the Belgian newspapers, “Gazet van Antwerpen,” came out with a publication that Stuivenberg Hospital will be permanently closed down and the final patients are being transferred to another hospital, the ZNA Cadix.

 

The short article about the decision of the authorities to close the hospital doors to patients was never made public. “The entire moving operation brings a definitive end to 138 years of the Stuivenberg Hospital,” the statement read.

 

What I do know is that, after my investigations at the hospital, major changes occurred to make the facility a better place. However, hundreds of immigrants are still terrified to visit that hospital because of its past and the stigma that has damaged its reputation.

 

Therefore, I do not doubt that the hospital was closed for this specific reason.

 

Source: https://juskosave.blogspot.com/2013/01/booklittle-boygium-wonderful-experience.html